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I am pained :



. Is there a way to raise awareness about abuse and crime without actually causing its level to increase in the society?

. Is there a method of education which can possibly address the cause and the effect simultaneously?

. Why is it ok to witness rape and harrasment on big screens and not ok when it happens for real?

. Why does it hurt when someone passes a sexually explicit comment on the road passing by but is quite acceptable when the hero on the big screen does the same to the heroine?

. Why is it okay to play/ perform item songs depicting women and girls as objects of lustful desire on wedding ceremonies (one of the most beautiful bonds granting value to both men’s and women’s lives)?

. Why is it logical to glorify and sensualise women in banner ads and billboards 24/7 and still expect people to lower their  gaze?

. Why is it okay to raise hue and cry over rape every now and then without addressing the power hungry, pervert nurturing societal trends which raise rapists every day?

. Why is the sexual connotation of love so rampantly used and abused in every single mode of communication?

. Do we have no other problems in this world like poverty, war and apartheid?

. Are we worse than the animals now that we focus on the worst means to address our carnal desires?

. Do we have no other purpose in life but to eat, spend and sleep?

. Does love have no other meaning to us than the deplorable version offered to us by the commercial media?

. Don’t we love God anymore? Don’t we realise there is a God?

. Is it a mere coincidence that when the biggest powers of the world get busy in war, destroying civilian lives,  we are still busy discussing entertainment and vacation possibilities?

I am pained , very pained over Asifa, over Zainab and many others like them.

I am pained over Syria , over Rohingya, over Yemen, over Kashmir, over Palestine.

I am pained over those jailed around the world without trial.

I am pained for the huffaz who got killed by a bomb on their most important day of life.

I am pained over our wilful forgetfulness!

For Allah, for Akhira and for the eternal.

#havefaith
#surrender

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